ashes to ashes ~

[lookingland]

contract is done. homework is done. maybe today i can just be sick and get it over with.

i need more heathen friends ~ too many on my f-list are signing off for lent. that always happens.

so all the work-work is done and here i am with a free day to write or draw or get creative stuff happening and my brain feels like a sponge soaked in napthelene. i'm resisting the urge to go back to bed (another night of lousy, hacking sleep).

i wrote a few pages last night, but nothing terribly exciting.

sort of like this journal entry.

~ * ~

Faith is not a thing which one loses,
we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

~ Georges Bernanos

Comments

[tiellan.livejournal.com]

lol I love the picture! Well, I'm not heathen, but I don't observe lent either, so I'll still be here. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

whoohoo ~ !

: D

[sparowe]

Maybe I should give up the internet, but I have so many friends here that it'd be hard on a couple of different levels. Like the past couple of years, I went traditional and chose meat. Not for Fridays, the whole time. If you're looking for something that makes you consciously aware of what you're doing, it serves nicely.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i eat so little meat it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice for me ~ now giving up crackers and breadstuffs! that would be agony.

: D

i can definitely give up snacks and non-essentials.

[sparowe]

If I wanted to be truly difficult, I would give up cheese. But on days when my stomach is acting up, that's sometimes the only thing that I can eat. At that point, I have to ask myself if I'm being sincere, or trying to make myself a martyr. So, I've never done it.

[littlewings04.livejournal.com]

I'm a heathen. We get all our repenting done in 24 hours with one big fast and a lot of davening and some silly hats. So no signing off for Lent for me. And I like nun pictures. Don't know why, but I do.

Also, I meant to tell you, I really enjoy your movie reviews of films with priest major characters. I'm fascinated by the representation of Catholic priests in the media. I don't know why, again, but I think it has to do with their ethic of self-denial and image of conflicted goodness. So I get excited when I see film reviews.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

catholicism needs more silly hats. i think it should be requisite of...something.

and thanks for the comment about the film reviews ~ it's definitely something i enjoy doing ~ i find literary representations fascinating too.

: D

[littlewings04.livejournal.com]

Jews have a really good market share of silly hats, I must admit. The Hasidim are a big portion of that, it's great.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

this is true ~ maybe we ought to explore our Jewish roots more ~ though the Church does have some outlandishly funny hats as it is now that i think about it. the biretta is one of the silliest hats ever. i love it.

: D

[daregale.livejournal.com]

I'll still be here!

Just finished translating a page of Bernanos for French class. . .

And I love the picture. :)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yay ~ ! (i feel like wilbur: all excited to see that not all of charlotte's children are ballooning away)

i do so love bernanos ~

: D

[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

Semi-heathen raising hand, although due to the new kidney stone diet, I fill like I'm giving up quite a few things for the long run. It just happened to coincide around the time of Lent...

Take it easy.

[astamaria.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! Loved the comment about the heathens! The picture of the nuns is great too!